balr41

Waitlisted to Harvard biostat today. Not very hopeful but does anybody ever get accepted from it?

@likewater @shuggie Did you get an official acceptance letter already? And did you apply to PhD or masters? I spoke with a professor from Umich biostat this week who said official letters would be sent in 2-3 weeks (I'm international though). Maybe funding will come out around the same time. I applied to PhD but it seems I may get acceptance into masters by the way he talked.

Hello, I am going to be a senior undergraduate student this upcoming fall and am considering applying for my PhD in the US for fall 2020. One of my main concerns is that I am from what is likely an unknown university to big US universities. I have yet to take the GRE but am confident I can score 167+ in my quantitative section, and would ideally like to score 170. Coming from a math undergraduate I am also confident about the math subject test. Any feedback is appreciated! Undergrad Institution: QS 701-750 Ranked Eastern Canadian University Major(s): Pure math and statistics (honours) Minor(s): Did four economics courses, but no minor GPA: 3.90/4.00 (95.7% average) Type of Student: Canadian White Male Relevant Math Courses: Calculus I, II, III (A+, A+, A+), Vector Calculus (A+), Linear Algebra I, II (A, A+), ODEs (A+), Real Analysis I, II (A, A+), Lebesgue Integration (B-), Complex Analysis (A), Combinatorics (A+) Statistics Course: Mathematical Statisics (A+), Statistical Inference I, II (A+, ?), Survey Sampling(?), Computational Statistics(?), Regression(?) Pure Math Courses: Abstract Algebra (A+), Set Theory (A), Topology (A+), Group Theory (B+) The rest of my courses are from lower level pure math, economics and a couple others. The ? are for courses that I will complete this fall, and grades should be available come application time. Research Experience: Worked on a summer research grant with a math professor in graph theory. Co-authored a paper currently submitted for publication. Worked on a summer research grant with a statistics professor in sampling. Co-authored a paper that will soon be submitted for publication. Will complete my honours thesis on causal inference in survival analysis in the next two semesters. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's list all three years of university, Book Prize for top of class two years ago (and possibly again last year), 4 or 5 scholarships while in university, 1 large entrance scholarship. Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Competed for my university in math competition at an undergraduate math conference for 2 years (likely again this fall as well), tutored for 3 years, helped organize local high school math league, corrected provincial math challenges. Letters of Recommendation: One from each of my research supervisors which should be very strong, most likely the other will come from my real analysis/Lebesgue integration prof, who taught me all three courses and should also be solid. School List: PhD: CMU, University of Washington, Columbia, UCLA Masters: UBC, University of Toronto One of my big issues is funding. I don't plan on applying to American masters programs as many schools don't seem to offer funding. I only plan to apply to top 25 schools for my PhD this time around as I believe if I'm not accepted, then doing my masters at a more well known Canadian university (with funding) will set me up with a better opportunity to get accepted later down the road. I have other masters programs in mind but one of my supervisors has told me I should not have a problem being accepted with funding to these. Thanks in advance!